Questions

Why the heck is my team losing like crazy in the stock market simulation?
Who the heck thought of Metal music?
Is God a Democrat?
How do you stop on inline skates?

Questions, questions, questions. My teachers have always told me, "Becksta, there is no such thing as a stupid question."
I beg to differ.
I think the stupidest question that I've ever heard in my life would be asked in a scenario such as this:
Two girls are standing next to each other in gym class, gossiping and twirling their golden locks of hair. Across the room, there's the dorky girl, sitting all alone, staring aimlessly into space. One of the pretty girls looks at her.
"Ugh," she scoffs in disgust. "There's so-and-so again. She's so gross!"
The other girl turns to look. "Yeah, I know!" she agrees, flipping back her hair.
Thinking that nobody is watching her, the poor so-and-so (who unfortunately is suffering from a cold) sneezes directly into her hand, and checking to see if nobody is watching, wipes it onto the floor and proceeds to pick her nose.
"Oh... my... gosh..." one of the pretty girls gasps. "Did she just do that?"

FREEZE!!

"Did she just do that?" DID SHE JUST DO THAT?
Hello!! That has to be the world's dumbest question ever! Of course she just 'did that'. I mean, you were standing right there, watching it happen with your very own eyes. DUH!
I'm sure someone will argue that it's just human habit to say that, to 'make sure we believe what we are seeing', or something to that extent.
That's why I have a backup plan.

Scenario two (this one is actually TRUE, unlike the made-up one above...):
An art class eagerly listens to their teacher's directions. The task for the students is to take a famous work of art (a painting), evenly divide it into equal sections, and assign one section for each student to paint individually. At the same time, they have to collaborate with their peers to assure that the sections look alike and fit together into a single, seamless painting. This project will be done on tiles, and will later be displayed in the school hallway.
Each student begins to plan the layout of their individual tile. They are collaborating color mixtures, where lines begin and end, and trying to find out what the heck is that thing on this part of that painting, and other things that need to be resolved before the painting. A student raises his hand, and asks a simple question: "What color do we paint the brown building?"

Wow. Nuff said.